To be clear, I think the last three administrations have waged wars with enough crimes against international law and humanity itself that there’s no real excuse for continued obedience. Even just take your statement here:

Wish I could feel the same way, I could see that perspective but it felt still more absolutist than that to me. Alas, this Schroedinger’s Hotbox could have been resolved if we had actually gotten a second season with Lindsay as a Deadhead (although I am in general a fan of how the show manages to largely wrap up the…

Interesting; were there behind-the-scenes shakeups after the allegations?

By previous statements she at least says he was always very supportive. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was true and it was actually a deliberate manipulation on his part to stem the rising tide of allegations at the time.

Can’t believe they cut that verse out of the Inauguration performance, the cowards!

Yeah, I think Rose McGowan’s perspective on this is potentially very important for getting a full picture. I wouldn’t be surprised if for example he acted very protective and comforting towards her—him knowing full well the role he normally played in relationships and acting deliberately different in her case. And…

I always think it’s stupid when something terrible is revealed about someone famous and a bunch of people pile on to talk about how they never liked their stuff anyway. What does that even have to do with anything? Like, at all?

“short-changes the elaborate groundwork of plot already laid, and more to the point, makes their attendant catharses unconvincing and inadequate”

The anti-weed ep of Freaks & Geeks doesn’t really hold up, or maybe that’s the wrong way to put it since it was a surprisingly wrongfooted episode even at the time.

I gotta say I bounced hard off of The Rookie, after giving it far too many episodes based on a friend’s recommendation; the LAPD is one of the most brutal, violent police departments in the US and the show played like a recruiting video. Not to mention that it seemed to revel in and take the side of folks doing…

“Nobody is going to convince the higher ups that killing brown people is wrong on the ground in Afghanistan.”

The main criticism I repeatedly hear about Supernatural is that they always killed off the female characters, so it’s really hilarious and dumb that the show meant to be the next starring vehicle for one of the two brothers starts out with killing off a female character.

With the treatments the rich and powerful get to receive, I doubt he’s in much danger, but boy howdy would it be nice if Elon Musk got . . . a scare. Lets say a scare. Good end to his story, being shown to be essentially a con man by getting himself [redacted] by refusing to follow others’ advice because he’s some…

In fairness if any actions taken by that mob were patriotic, it’s smoking weed in the Capitol (after all it’s in a city that voted to legalize weed, and then got slapped down rather dickishly by the U.S. legislature asserting the special control it has kver the city and thus D.C. as a city can’t allow commercial sale…

It’s particularly weird that Will’s dad says “The Authority” to his son, rather than “God”, a term he’d know his son would be familiar with unlike the term from Lyra's world which he'd have little reason to assume Will would know. Show shying away a bit from the theological implications, perhaps?

Yeah, that was weird. And they didn’t have to have them be opened normally after such deformation—-really a wasted opportunity to not have Luke slice through the doors, frankly.

Luke not caring about Gideon was particularly bizarre since it seemed to me clear that Gideon tried to kill himself because he knew Luke would be able to pull secrets of the Empire out of his head. Turns out he was scared for nothing.

Yeah, a tiny bit more practical trickery could have avoided the uncanny valley, but I guess they were just too confident and didn’t see the flaws themselves. It’s like with Moff Tarkin in Rogue One; when he first shows up, he’s staring out a window into space and we see him in the half-reflection of the glass, and it…

Personally all the fan service seems very dumb and superficial to me, but I still greatly enjoyed The Mandalorian, and I expect giant corporations like Disney to always take the easy way out and play for cheap thrills anyways, especially when it comes to their most lucrative properties. Like, the fact alone that…